Using Copilot with Word and PowerPoint

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First impressions of Copilot within Office 365 Part five of a five-part series of blogs
You can now add Copilot to your 365 licence, although it isn't cheap - this review looks at whether the benefits outweigh the costs. Using Copilot within Microsoft 365 Getting Copilot set up Examples of using Copilot for Excel Using Copilot withn Outlook Using Copilot with Word and PowerPoint (this blog)

First impressions of Copilot within Office 365

Part five of a five-part series of blogs

You can now add Copilot to your 365 licence, although it isn't cheap - this review looks at whether the benefits outweigh the costs.

Using Copilot within Microsoft 365
Getting Copilot set up
Examples of using Copilot for Excel
Using Copilot withn Outlook
Using Copilot with Word and PowerPoint (this blog)

Posted by Andy Brown on 08 May 2024

Having got frustrated with Copilot in Excel and Outlook, I was determined to play to its strengths with Word, so typed in this request into Copilot in Word:

This is surely exactly what Copilot should be good at?

The document contained a version of the Little Red Riding Hood story, although with a very different ending:

The start of the story is traditional enough.

Here was the response:

Surely the whole point of Copilot is that it can enable AI on your documents, bypassing confidentiality and security issues?

In despair, I just asked Copilot to summarise the story, and got this excellent result:

This is a good summary of the story!

While the above result is great, I could have got it without Copilot by just uploading the story as a PDF or other document into ChatGPT or any other AI tool.

Parts of this blog
Using Copilot within Microsoft 365 Getting Copilot set up Examples of using Copilot for Excel Using Copilot withn Outlook Using Copilot with Word and PowerPoint (this blog)